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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Manuals/FDS_Validation_Guide/Experiment_Chapter.tex
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Expand Up @@ -3004,6 +3004,10 @@ \section{TUS Facade Experiments}

Yoshioka and co-workers~\cite{Yoshioka:FST2012} at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) conducted experiments in a large-scale facade apparatus based on ISO~13785-2. In the experiments, a gas-fueled fire within a compartment extends outside of an opening and impinges on a non-combustible vertical lining above the opening. Quasi-steady measurements of temperature and heat flux were taken.

The compartment dimension were 4.0 m $\times$ 4.0 m $\times$ 1.7 m. (Note that the dimensions were wrong in \cite{Yoshioka:FST2012}. The facade was 5.7 m tall, with a 1.2 m wide wing made of the same material as the main facade. Compartment had one 1.2 m tall and 2.0 m wide window in the facade wall, but the window was partially closed in two of the tests. Back of the compartment had four 0.5 m $\times$ 0.6 m windows, which were open or closed according to the desired ventilation condition. These vents were closed by heavy fire blankets, but not by solid objects. There is considerable uncertainty in the process and quality of opening and closing these vents.

City gas was used as a fuel. It was lead to the compartment through four, room-wide burner pipes with holes on top surface, about 20 cm above the floor. Tests were carried out as three series, named I, 1 and 2, so that in each series several ignitions were performed with changing ventilation and HRR. Test duration was 5 min and 10 min of cooling was allowed to take place between tets.

\subsubsection{Modeling Notes}

Gleb Bytskov at the University of Aalto, Finland, performed numerical simulations of these experiments using FDS as part of his master's thesis~\cite{Bytskov:Thesis}.
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